Sorrow Quotes - Page 40

• Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Sympathy, Casts, Sufficient

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• It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Limits, Sides, Infinite

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• Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Faith, Light, Shining

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• If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Grief, Ifs

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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Real, Rays, Delicacy

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• When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Complaining, Income, May

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• I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Education, Time, Teaching

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• Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Grief, Soul, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.398

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• There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
  And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

  W. H. Auden

  Gold, Mountain, Hunger

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• We honor founders of these starving cities,
  Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

  W. H. Auden

  Cities, Honor, Founders

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• There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

  Nhat Hanh

  Fear, Anger, Future

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “The Path of Emancipation: Talks from a 21-day Mindfulness Retreat”, p.8, Parallax Press

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• Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Selfish, Past, Unhappiness

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• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Wine, Mean

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• No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, Men, Darkness

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• Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

  Margaret of Valois

  Joy, Soul, Our Actions

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• Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Despair, Unrest, Calm

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press

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• The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Eye, Mirrors, Shattered

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fortune, Satisfied

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• Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Garden, Apples

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• The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

  Philip Sidney

  Violence, Firsts, Beast

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.256, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

  Arthur Helps

  Morning, Hard Work, Passion

  Sir Arthur Helps (1848). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.55

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• If we love a person, we love him, and whatever he may do will not affect our love. It may cause us pain if he does evil, because we love him; it may cause us sorrow and suffering; but it cannot affect our love.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Pain, Evil, Suffering

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”

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• Try to comprehend the unity of all; there is one God, and all are one in Him. If we can but bring home to ourselves the unity of that Eternal Love, there will be no more sorrow for us; for we shall realize, not for ourselves alone but for those whom we love, that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's, and that in Him we live and move and have our being, whether it be in this world or in the world to come.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Moving, Home, Unity

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Science of the Sacraments”

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• Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it
  To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.
  Suppose the singing birds musicians,
  The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,
  The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more
  Than a delight measure or a dance;
  For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite
  The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Men

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.231, Cengage Learning EMEA

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